Breakbeat is yet another music genre that spread from America, took on a dose of European ingenuity, and then led a life of its own to become one of the biggest beats of the dance world. This is how ...

DJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat — isolating and repeating breaks, the most danceable portions of songs that form part of the foundation of modern hip-hop. He also wrote the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While familiar Funk breaks will always be an intrinsic element of DnB, the decision to use one ...

Sampled breaks are a central part of the drum 'n' bass sound, but they'll often need tidying up… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NYC's Breakbeat Science, the U.S.'s oldest drum'n'bass specialty shop, could fit into your average Borders 40 times over. But it's survived and thrived while a succession of fickle post-rave fads have ...

For much of the '80s, Everything But The Girl remained a beautiful but forgettable cult act, like Sade minus the boffo lite-rock success. But things changed in the band's favor when house maven Todd ...

2015 has found Fisher sporting as many hats as ever. As the founder of his own Allergy Season label, he put out a compilation of “genre-free dance music” called Side Effects May Include:, as well as ...

Thanks to the most commanding breakbeat this side of the James Brown catalog, the Bongo Band's “Apache” is one the most-sampled records of all time, and there are no signs of that changing anytime ...

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